Double Aisled Barn To North West Of Kirklees Priory Gatehouse

The double-aisled barn located to the north-west of Kirklees Priory Gatehouse is a significant 15th-century timber-framed structure featuring six bays. This barn, which is one of the farm buildings associated with the Priory, has been rebuilt but may have originally had stone walls. The cross-wings at both ends were added around 1620, with a late 19th-century alteration on the right side to create a farmhouse. The barn is constructed from hammer-dressed stone with ashlar dressings and has a stone slate roof.

The main entrance to the barn is square-headed, while the opposite entrance is sheltered by a 17th-century gable porch. Inside, the barn features king post trusses with tall king posts and arched braces connecting to the arcade plate. A high collar suggests a hip roof at the southern end. The external wall of the eastern aisle was refaced in the 19th century.

The gabled wing at the right end of the barn was originally a dovecote. Attached to the eastern end of the barn is a two-and-a-half-storey range that provides stabling on the ground floor, a hay loft on the first floor, and accommodation on the second floor, with a date of 1620 inscribed on the hoodmould label stop. This range features a coped gable with kneelers and quoins, and the hoodmould extends over the ground floor windows.

The doorway has composite jambs and a Tudor arched lintel with spandrels. There is a chamfered mullioned window with five lights, where the mullions are closely set. Above this is a pitching hole with composite jambs and a four-centred arch, along with a two-light attic window. The return wall includes a long three-bay range with closely set mullioned windows of five and six lights on the first two floors. The top floor has two wider-set two-light mullions, likely originally glazed for stable boys' accommodation. The west gable features mullioned windows with five lights on the first two floors and six lights on the top floor.